Cooler Master recently announced their most ambitious power supply ever, the Cooler Master MasterWatt Maker 1200 MIJ.

Designed in cooperation with Japanese electronics manufacturer, Murata, the Cooler Master MasterWatt Maker 1200 MIJ is a 1200W power supply featuring better than 80+ Titanium efficiency. In order to meet these demands, components used within the power supply is the absolute highest quality with 80% of the components used made in Japan. Further, at least 20 of the components are custom designed including the Murata planar transformer, custom power conversion circuits, and a custom circuit board layout. Backing up the MasterWatt Maker 1200 MIJ is also a [...]

When it comes to power supplies, everyone who’s ever seriously worked with computers knows that Seasonic’ power supplies are the gold standard. There’s really no question about it. When you buy a Seasonic power supply, you know it’s going to last a long time.

As a show of confidence in their ultra high reliability, most Seasonic power supplies are warranted for at least 5 years, 7 years, or some even 10 years, but Seasonic is taking those standards even higher in their PRIME series power supplies, increasing the warranty period to an industry leading 12 years. Considering 12 years is approximately 14% of the average US person’s lifespan, [...]

At CES 2017 we had the chance to stop by EVGA, which had a huge lineup of new products including the all-new iCX cooled GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 graphics cards, Intel Z270 motherboards, a brand new lineup of budget-minded B3 power supplies, and the finished version of the quick disconnect CLC coolers we saw back at Computex last year.

Starting off our tour we had the chance to take a look EVGA’s brand new “iCX” cooled graphics cards which are set to replace the ACX 3.0 cooled cards which make up the majority of their current GeForce 10-series lineup. The new [...]

If it doesn’t fit, it doesn’t sit. Form-factor is the foremost factor in purchasing a power supply. But with the Thermaltake Toughpower SFX series 80+ Gold power supplies, maybe the decision becomes a little bit easier.

As its name suggests, the Toughpower SFX series power supply is built around the SFX form-factor. The SFX form-factor is more compact than the standard ATX form-factor, allowing them to be squeezed into tight builds like mATX or uATX. With that said, Thermaltake also includes a SFX to ATX adapter bracket so it can be used for ATX cases as well.

The 80+ Gold rated Toughpower SFX power supplies are guaranteed to operate [...]

Computex 2016 has finally kicked off and we’re getting our first look at some new products of GIGABYTE. The company has unveiled a slew of new products including a brand new line of power supplies and a chassis, and a keyboard, all under their Xtreme Gaming brand.

GIGABYTE’s new enthusiast grade Xtreme Gaming power supply line includes just one model as of right now, but their may be more. The XP1200M is a 1200 watt, fully modular 80+ Platinum unit which features all-Japanese capacitors, a single +12V rail, DC-to-DC switching and a 140 mm double ball-bearing fan which will stay completely off below a specific [...]

EVGA has recently announced the release of several new models in its flagship SuperNOVA T2 power supply series, which it originally debuted with the top-of-the-line EVGA SuperNOVA T2 1600w early last year. With the new products, EVGA expands its ultra-high-end lineup into several new capacities which include 1000w, 850w and 750w units.

As the name implies, the SuperNOVA T2 series features 80 PLUS Titanium efficiency, which means it is rated for at least 94% efficiency or higher under typical loads. EVGA also says the units are equipped with “the highest quality Japanese brand capacitors” although it [...]

Sea Sonic is a company known for making some of the highest quality power supplies on the market, producing high-quality models companies such as Corsair, Cooler Master and XFX. However, today they’re announcing a new flagship series under their own brand. The new PRIME series, which features an 80 PLUS Titanium power efficiency rating, which is currently the highest available on the market.

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2014 has been an unusually quiet year for Cooler Master. The computer component and peripheral giant who typically launches at least five to ten products every quarter hasn’t really made a whole lot of noise over the past year. As such, we were a bit curious to find out what happened to such a prominent force in the industry, so we took a quick trip to the Cooler Master CES suite to talk to Marketing Manager, Rajiv Kothari.

When we arrived at the Cooler Master suite this year, the suite was unusually clean, uncluttered, and relatively quiet. Here we met up with Rajiv, who spoke to us for a good hour about Cooler Master’s plans for the new year. As usual, [...]

With the increasing popularity of GPU cryptocurrency mining and multi-GPU configurations, Corsair has recently launched their first 1,500w PSU, the AX1500i. Whether you’re trying to break overclocking records, trying to break GPU khash/s records, or simply a hardcore PC enthusiast, the AX1500i has practically everything you’ll need to feed 1,500 watts of stable, digitally-controlled power to your system, even on typical North American 115V 15A circuits. By using a Digital Signal Processor (DSP) to regulate the power output, it’s also the world’s first 1,500W PSU to receive the 80 PLUS Titanium certification by carrying a 94% efficiency rating at 50% [...]

In the aftermath of OCZ’s bankruptcy and eventual purchase by Toshiba, OCZ’s SSD business is now a Toshiba subsidiary known as OCZ Storage Solutions while OCZ’s PSU business continued to hang in the balance. Up until this point, it was unclear what Toshiba wanted to do with the OCZ PSU business, but given that Toshiba didn’t seem particularly interested in getting themselves into the PSU market, a sale of the PSU business seemed to be the most likely possibility.

In a recent filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released by OCZ on 2/10/14 however, it seems like after Toshiba finalized the purchase of OCZ’s assets [...]